The Rusty Rudder is open for its 46th season, featuring live music and other events. Dogfish Head Brewery's Weekend of Compelling Ales & Spirits festival is expected to draw large crowds.

Thursday, March 20, marks the first day of spring, and the shoulder season at the beach is off to a rip-roaring start. The ...

Hospitality is a tough business, even for the world's top chefs. Every year, new restaurants and culinary mainstays close their doors, often no longer able to weather the ups and downs of the industry ...

In Boston.com’s Perfect Day series, we’re talking to a local expert in each of Boston’s 23 neighborhoods about how they’d spend their perfect day. See what makes this city so special to ...

Crews will install bait boxes with rat birth control in alleys behind several major stretches of Wicker Park and Bucktown.

Somewhat isolated in the revitalized, historic North End, in an area of former waterfront shipyards and warehouses dating back 300 years, the Battery Wharf is one of the more interesting hotels in ...

Rats are getting bigger and more brazen in a British city where a sanitation strike has left tons of garbage piled up on city streets, locals say, and residents are raising fears for public health.

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

Massachusetts lawmakers want to restrict a type of rat poison that is particularly dangerous to birds, pets and wildlife. One hawk spent fourth months recovering from eating a poisoned rat at ...

At the New England Wildlife Center in Weymouth, veterinarian Priya Patel checks the vitals of one of her patients. He's a red-tailed hawk, and for the moment he's swaddled in a sandy brown towel.